Study Update
Well, less than two weeks before I take my Level 3 - Japanese Language Proficency Test (wikipedia). How well am I prepared? Well I scared the shit out of myself on Monday when I finished a mock test and found that I'm coming below the pass mark mark. But the plus side was that I passed the kanji and grammar parts, the stuff that I had been studying over teh past few weeks. What's failing me is my listening and my vocabulary, which are pretty much linked. Question is, can I learn enought vocabulary in teh next two weeks to pass?
Well, I can but try. I've found a listing of the official vocabulary specification. All the words used in the test will come from this list and the list for level 4, so if I can memorise these, then no problem!! There are a lot of words, around 1,500, so to focus my efforts, I've been compling a subset from the past papers and the study material.
Tomorrow, Japan has a public holiday, so no school for me and an opportunity to study instead. I've been feeling too tired to study tonight (mainly because i had four lessons today, and also because I woke up early to watch Nakamura score an amazing free-kick, not too dissimliar to this one against Man Utd last night), so instead I've been preparing for tomorrow; food for breakfast and lunch, kerosene for the heater, getting housework out the way. So, hopefully no distractions for tomorrow's vocabu-a-thon.
Night night.
Well, I can but try. I've found a listing of the official vocabulary specification. All the words used in the test will come from this list and the list for level 4, so if I can memorise these, then no problem!! There are a lot of words, around 1,500, so to focus my efforts, I've been compling a subset from the past papers and the study material.
Tomorrow, Japan has a public holiday, so no school for me and an opportunity to study instead. I've been feeling too tired to study tonight (mainly because i had four lessons today, and also because I woke up early to watch Nakamura score an amazing free-kick, not too dissimliar to this one against Man Utd last night), so instead I've been preparing for tomorrow; food for breakfast and lunch, kerosene for the heater, getting housework out the way. So, hopefully no distractions for tomorrow's vocabu-a-thon.
Night night.
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4 Comments:
I feel you my friend... There is an unnecessary amount of vocabulary in this language... At least you get to write your test in Japan... I think I may have an embolism if I arrive in Seoul and the test instructions are in Korean... Also... Have you seen that we probably can`t play in Saitama Stadium in January anymore cause the organisers say that there is a problem...??? Apparently we can still use all the other pitches but the stdaium may be a no gain... Pretty shitty right... You and me were going to be vying for the only people in Japan to play inside there three years in a row...
Best of luck with it! I've pretty much wussed out entirely - not going to be able to try until 2007 at the latest. What's happened to Saitama? They surely can't welch on it now!
Hey Nick. Hisashiburi! Apparently the Saitama Stadium is under new management and they have introduced new policies and things so they won't let us use the main pitch for the final. They'll let us use the training pitches outside though!
So, we'll be playing in Saitama, just the final will be on the training pitches and not in the main stadium. The tourney organisers are hoping that new management might change their minds next year, if not this year, but for now we'll have to make do with "Played in the Shadow of Saitama Stadium three years in a row"
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